Brian Jones Revisited

Richard Thompson asked, “Did She Jump or Was She Pushed?” and now the same question, give or take, is being asked with regard to the death of Brian Jones, the founding Rolling Stones guitarist who was found dead in his swimming pool forty years ago. For years, fans, journalists, and conspiracy theorists have wondered whether the original ruling of accidental death overlooked important facts in the case. Now British police are reopening an inquiry. Below is a scene with Jones, Mick Jagger, and Keith Richards from Jean-Luc Godard’s “One Plus One.”

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